After School Midnighters
After School Midnighters , Hkago Midnighters? is a 2012 Japanese computer animated comedy film directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo. It released onAugust 2012 in Japan and was originally based upon a short film that Takekiyo had made for a musical channel.
Three elementary school girls, Mako Haruka TomatsuCaroline Combes, Miko Sakiko UranLucille Boudonnat, and Mutsuko Minako KotobukiLucille Boudonnat, decide to investigate the legends behind their school, St. Claire Elementary. As a lark they decide to vandalize the science rooms human anatomy model Kunstrijk Kouichi YamaderaBruno Meyere, who decides to take his own personal revenge on the three girls. He invites them to return to the school at midnight for a party, intending to scare them. Instead the three girls end up joining Kunstrijk and the skeleton model Goth Hiromasa TaguchiChristophe Seugnet on a quest to gain a wish. The girls must find three medallions that are spread out over the schools enormous grounds. Kunstrijk directs them to go to three rooms the Pool Room, the Digital Room, and the Music Room. Each room has their own guardian that fits each areas themes, as the Pool Room is guarded by a merman, the Digital Rooms guardians are two allknowing beings, and the Music Rooms guardian is Mozart himself Hiroshi YanakaJeanPierre Leblan. However the quest is made even more difficult as not everyone wants the girls to succeed and Kunstrijk is hiding his own secret reason for wanting the girls to succeed the quest is actually to help ensure that he and Goth will remain in their living state forever rather than returning to inanimate objects.The character of Kunstlijk was originally created for a dialogueless short film intended for a music video channel and Takekiyo had planned to film a further series of shorts around the anatomical model. Producer friends of Takekiyo convinced him to work on a featurelength film instead, which necessitated the creation of a script and the addition of various characters. The film quality also improved from the level seen in the short and Takekiyo stated that he found that Getting the characters to really perform like actors was both the hardest part and the most important. ........
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